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One of the best comedy teams ever, Abbott and Costello starred in many 1940s and 1950s comedies, including Hold that Ghost and The Naughty Nineties. |
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Eve Arden brought glamour and sophisitication to B comedies in the 1930s and 1940s. Later, she starred on the TV sitcom Our Miss Brooks. |
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Arthur Lake and Penny Singleton portrayed the comic strip favorites Dagwood and Blondie in Columbia Pictures' Blondie series of films produced from 1938 through 1950. |
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Judy Canova was dubbed the "Queen of Corn" in the 1940s for the hillbilly brand of humor she used in such films as Scatterbrain and Joan of Ozark. |
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Joan Davis came up through the ranks in vaudeville, learning to milk laughs from even the oldest routines. A star in films and on radio in the 1940s, Davis moved to television in the 1950s with her series I Married Joan. |
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Although Shirley Eaton is best known for her role in Goldfinger, she starred in many terrific 1950s and 1960s comedies, including Eight on the Lam and Nearly a Nasty Accident. |
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Richard Long got his start in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of films and acted in other comedies as well, including Back at the Front and Follow the Boys. |
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Marjorie Main is best known for her title role in the Ma and Pa Kettle series of films. Like other comediennes of her era, Main started her career in vaudeville. |
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Ann Sheridan was not exclusively a comedic actress; nonetheless, she starred in many comedies during her 30-year career, including I Was a Male War Bride. |
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Elke Sommer has acted in numerous comedies such as Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!, A Shot in the Dark, and Carry on Behind since the 1960s. |
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Gale Storm acted in many comedies and musicals at Monogram in the 1940s before moving to television in the 1950s as My Little Margie. |
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Pamela Tiffin starred in a number of comedies in the 1960s, including One, Two Three and The Hallelujah Trail before moving on to European comedies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Lupe Velez is best known for her Mexican Spitfire series of comedies produced by RKO, and she started her film career in Hal Roach comedy shorts in the 1920s. |
